The Coaching Kool-Aid
Ready to be challenged? Feeling playful? If you’re a coach who’s serious about engaging in reflective practice, or you’re simply interested in taking a look behind the curtains of the coaching profession, come with us as we bite into the juicy fruit of this intriguing, complex, and totally unregulated industry. In each episode we’ll look at a different concept used within coaching, and playfully unpack both its problems and its utility.
The Coaching Kool-Aid
McMindfulness? Part One
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Renée Lockwood and Melanie Weeks
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Season 1
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Episode 5
What’s the difference between meditation and mindfulness? And are these practices really as harmless and user-friendly as we are told? In the first of this two-part episode on mindfulness, we’re joined by Dr Alex Norman of Western Sydney University. If you’re interested in where mindfulness comes from, what we’re doing with it now, and the potential dangers of utilising this ancient practice in a modern context, this is the episode for you.